The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time [Licensed by One Peace Books]
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Seriously, people gotta stop being such zealots about this series. It's a good series, and I love it (and I would love for it to be licensed), but people pushing it so hard at every opportunity (and in topics totally unrelated to it) are actually turning people away from the series. @Zing If you like death mage, please realize that your behaviour is making people avoid the series.
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@guspaz said in The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time:
Seriously, people gotta stop being such zealots about this series. It's a good series, and I love it (and I would love for it to be licensed), but people pushing it so hard at every opportunity (and in topics totally unrelated to it) are actually turning people away from the series. @Zing If you like death mage, please realize that your behaviour is making people avoid the series.
Fine fine FINE, you've convinced me, i'll give the fan translation a try and post tomorrow if I like it.
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Okay i've read up to part 30 and it's a pretty interesting read. While nothing amazing, it aint bad.
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@Fated the story is one of those slow build ones. So nothing incredible really happens very early on. The best part of the story it its different perspectives it gives in the side chapters, I've enjoyed those the most as it gives good perspective on how the story is going along from another character's point of view other than Van or someone on his side.
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I was wandering around the licensing suggestions area last night and came across this and it sounded interesting, so I checked out the translated web novel and now I'm on chapter 33, having neglected the pile of homework I was supposed to have been doing, and really into it. I'd love to see JNC pick this up and read the finished light novels and support the series by buying them.
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I was surprised by sudden license of THE EMINENCE IN SHADOW, perhaps there is hope for this one :)
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@zing said in The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time:
I was surprised by sudden license of THE EMINENCE IN SHADOW, perhaps there is hope for this one :)
Why would that be a sign for this one? Type of story, publisher, or something else?
License Wishlist: Kino's Journey, Crest/Banner anthology, SukaMoka
Favorite JNC Series: Bookworm, Faraway Paladin, Dendro, Grimgar, Crest/Banner of the Stars, Tearmoon Empire, Skull Dragon's Precious Daughter, Apothecary Diaries, Otome Heroine's Fight -
Yeah, the two series aren't remotely related in any way, so kind of a weird comparison.
I'm pretty sure the only reason Death Mage isn't picked up (besides some of the subject matter) is just that its publisher (Hifumi Shobo) isn't that well established, and has only had a single one of its series picked up by an English publisher, (SCP Foundation picked up by Seven Seas just weeks ago)
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@yumenokage said in The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time:
Why would that be a sign for this one? Type of story, publisher, or something else?
Mostly wishful thinking, recently a lot of works that I like were getting licenses, by not j-novel. Which bring me to the work that I like the most :)
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The premise of this story sounds interesting. I’d definitely buy it if it gets licensed.
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The current web novel is being translated at a snails pace, but it finally reached a conclusion on one of the main characters primary ambitions.(as in for what we have translated unofficially so far) I'd personally love for this series to be translated officially. The web novel itself is in the range of 300+ chapters at this time while the actual light novel itself only has 5 volumes out currently, barely covering the 2nd arc/3rd arc of the series. Its a good time to pick up this series solely because its a period where the light novel is actually lagging far behind. Personally I love the art for the cover/illustrations. All the characters looks really cool and the newest volume has an awesome cover:
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So I looked up the Japanese publisher and it seems it's Hifumi Shobo. According to the English Licenses sorted by JP Publisher thread there's been only one English license from them, SCP Foundation: Iris Through the Looking-Glass from Seven Seas Entertainment.
Anyone know anything about this publisher and how hard it likely is to license stuff from them?
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@yumenokage Like I said a few posts up, SCP Fondation seems to be the first license from them, and it was only about a month or two ago. I think they're just new, as far as LNs go, so there aren't any licensors that have any established connection with them (besides SSE, that is…)
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the beginning is too cruel to soo good an this is GOLD
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yeah, fingers crossed that this gets picked up, preferably by JNC. Now every time we get announcements of a new batch of licenses I'm hoping for this one.
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@yumenokage well JNC have a panel at Anime Expo next month so we will see:D
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Only problem is I don’t think any English licensor has been able to get deal with this publisher, let alone JNC.
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@legitpancake Seven Seas got one from them. And since the JP publisher is small if I'm not mistaken, it might be more of a matter of English publishers not really trying to get stuff from them.
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Yeah they got that SCP one
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fingers crossed for a license announcement at Anime expo.
